They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.
No soldier ever really survives a war.
It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.
And freedom is what America means to the world.
Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.